Photocopies of 'Cape Asbestos Company Magazine' (the house journal of Cape Asbestos Company Ltd), December 1951 to Autumn 1963.
Contains occasional post-it markers by either Flynn or Tweedale.
Photocopies of 'Cape Asbestos Company Magazine' (the house journal of Cape Asbestos Company Ltd), December 1951 to Autumn 1963.
Contains occasional post-it markers by either Flynn or Tweedale.
Joan Holtze was the secretary and assistant treasurer at the North American Asbestos Corporation.
William S Haines was a former chairman of Safety & Claims Services Inc., which did work for Union Asbestos & Rubber Company.
Max E Meyer was a lawyer employed by Lord, Bissell & Brook, who represented Cape Asbestos.
Correspondence and papers, chiefly re a visit of H C Lewinsohn (Chief Medical Officer, TBA Industrial Products Ltd) to India, November 1975.
Includes
Richard Gaze was the executive director of Cape Industries.
Francis Howard was an accountant. Among others he worked for Anglo American Corporation of South Africa (North America) Ltd, 1968-1970, and for Charter Consolidated Services from 1975.
Originally contained a (duplicate) copy of the deposition of William S Haines (June 1980), in Charlotte Hammond v. Cape Industries & NAAC, etc. See FLYNN/2/3/4
Set of industry brochures from Cape Boards and Panels Ltd and Cape Universal Claddings Ltd.
NAAC correspondence, as follows:
Set of exhibits, marked and annotated. Includes:
Argues among other things that at all times Charter and its predecessor Central Mining controlled Cape's mining operations in South Africa and that therefore the corporate distinction between the two companies should be disregarded and Charter should assume Cape's contacts with the State of Mississippi. Further, that the Court should disregard the corporate veil between Cape and Charter because Cape had introduced into the marketplace a product which it knew would be dangeous to the end user. Etc.
Microfiches of company registration documents.
Also photocopies of the following:
Correspondence and papers re and arising from Granada Television's World in Action (WIA) documentary ‘A small town tragedy’ (1982), investigating the refusal of British company Cape Industries Ltd to pay compensation awarded against them in an American court of law to workers of their North American subsidiary company in Bloomington, Illinois. The transmission of ‘A small town tragedy’ brought Flynn in contact with a number of American tort lawyers.
Includes (in reverse chronological order):
Also includes Flynn's pitch for a programme (or an article on the history of company awareness of the dangers posed by asbestos), c.1981, and correspondence with Charles Patrick and Ron Motley, 1981, both tort lawyers in South Carolina who sued a subsidiary of international asbestos giant Turner & Newall.
deposition of Dr Ian Webster (12 November 1996), in Asbestos Personal Injury Cases, Arrington Lead, Civil Action No 93-9-114, Circuit Court of Jones County, Mississippi. Deposition taken in Johannesburg, South Africa. Webster was senior pathologist at the National Centre for Occupational Health, Johannesburg, South Africa
deposition of Anthony Mendelle (13 November 1984), in Darlene Smith v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp, PPG Industries Inc., Cape Industries Ltd, Cape Asbestos Fibers Ltd, Cape Boards & Panels Ltd etc., Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny, Pennsylvania. Mendelle was products manager (1956-1960) and production manager (1960-1968) at Cape Asbestos Company Ltd, Barking, UK
deposition of Malcom George King (24 September 1979), in [unidentified court case], UK. King had been employed by CSR Ltd, Sydney, a building products company in Australia and New Zealand, since 1933
Includes covering correspondence from Robert Blackwell (research assistant to Hayden S Dent, attorney), 20 May 1997